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AUGUST 15, 2019

Amazon has announced that it is set to open an Amazon Books location in Nashville, as well as an Amazon 4-star store in Boston. Geek Wire reported that the announcement came on the same day the eCommerce giant launched its fourth 4-star store in Seattle. The first location opened in New York City last September.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Boston Telemedicine Company Amwell Prices IPO. Amwell, the Boston-based telemedicine company, is planning to go public as the demand for virtual healthcare offerings skyrockets amid the coronavirus pandemic. Report: Grab In Talks To Raise Up To $500M. New Report: A Merchant's How-To Guide To Reopening Retail Stores.

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JUNE 19, 2020

More people going back to work is only positive news if it can be done safely and in the long term, Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren indicated in remarks to the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce on Friday (June 19). However, he acknowledged that U.S. employment is at 13.3

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2016

While there was more conjecture than proof behind Amazon’s apparent decision to exclude a Boston neighborhood from its same-day delivery service, the issue appears to be off the table now. The change comes as a result of a Bloomberg report published on the process by which Amazon selects its same-day service coverage areas.

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Payments Dive

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Thales eSecurity and Networld Media Group will host the 2018 FinServ Data Security Summit in Boston, Thursday, Nov. Participating CISOs will get exclusive insights from the Thales Data Threat Report and from IS executives who have headed up major digital transformation initiatives for their financial institutions.

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JUNE 17, 2020

A former eBay communications chief and veteran public relations executive was involved in a campaign to cyberstalk and harass a Massachusetts couple behind a newsletter critical of the online retailer, according to a Bloomberg report. Attorney Andrew Lelling said Monday (June 15) at a news conference in Boston, according to CBS Boston. “To

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Lyft has started its self-driving car pilot with the self-driving car company nuTonomy , matching its riders with autonomous vehicles in parts of Boston. nuTonomy made the announcement that passengers in Boston’s Seaport district will experience self-driving rides on the Lyft network in nuTonomy vehicles. ”

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The year started out looking pretty promising to Loic Le Garrec , owner of Boston’s Petit Robert Bistro. Mild winter weather in Boston had led to stronger-than-average performances in January and February, and Le Garrec told Karen Webster in a digital discussion that as March approached, he had every reason for optimism. “I

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

The Boston-based sports fantasy operator said in the release Thursday (Oct. 15) that it has signed a multi-year agreement to become the exclusive provider of sports betting information and daily fantasy sports content for both Turner Sport and Bleacher Report.

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American Banker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Payments revenue growth is slowing from economic headwinds, lower-cost digital transactions and upstarts cutting into incumbents' profit margins, according to a Boston Consulting Group report. Here's what to expect.

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JUNE 9, 2020

million from the month before and the lowest since the Labor Department’s JOLTS (Job Opening and Labor Turnover Survey) report was relaunched in 2002 after a 20-year hiatus. That separate Labor Department report, which tracks unemployment numbers, saw a drop in the jobless rate to 13.3 Hiring plunged to 3.5 million in April to 7.7

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Banking Exchange

APRIL 19, 2021

HoldCo Asset Management says shareholders should vote against deal following ISS report Management Feature M&A Feature3.

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OCTOBER 6, 2020

cities, including Boston, Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C. This allows restaurants to shift away from digital menus, which could potentially act as vectors for COVID-19. The contactless pickup ordering feature is offered nationwide, but the dine-in solution is currently available only in select U.S.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 9, 2018

To change that, merchants and consumers are going to have to find a way out of the “chicken-and-egg” syndrome that is slowing adoption, a report released last week by Federal Reserve Bank of Boston found. While mobile banking has become normal for the majority of Americans, mobile payments remain less ubiquitous in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In this month’s Feature Story, Sam Shames , co-founder and chief operating officer of Boston-based thermal wellness startup Embr Labs , discusses how utilizing SMS-based communication can help retailers offer a personal touch to customers, reduce cart abandonment and ultimately keep them engaged for the long haul.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

While the previous purchase amount threshold varied by city, it’s now set at $300,000 for each metropolitan area, covering certain counties within the following major locations: Boston, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Honolulu, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco and Seattle.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2019

In the fifth official study conducted by the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta, Boston, Richmond and San Francisco, the 2018 Diary of Consumer Payment Choice (DCPC) detailed the cash and non-cash payment behavior of U.S. An average of 14 percent of consumers per day reported making zero payments. consumers. And consumers in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Amazo n and GE may be giving up on New York City and Boston respectively, but Google is taking a different approach, expanding in both cities. According to reports , Google — which already announced plans to expand its Hudson Square space late last year — is investing billions of dollars into real estate in New York.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2019

Google is reportedly back in the robotics game , according to a The New York Times report. As PYMNTS covered in 2017, SoftBank , the Japanese telecommunications company, announced that a subsidiary of SoftBank entered into a definitive agreement to acquire robotics pioneer Boston Dynamics from Alphabet , the parent company of Google.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2017

In its seventh administering of this research, dubbed the “Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2017,” Startup Genome was able to uncover the current state of the globalization of startups and their ecosystems. The technology industry currently sits at 4.5 While global growth is only at 2.6 Los Angeles.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2018

As Boston tries to lure Amazon’s second headquarters to the eastern part of the city it is facing concerns that it would result in displacements of lower-income residents and increasing costs in the city. Those concerns aren’t only reserved to expensive cities like Boston however. percentage points. percentage points.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In bizarre banking news, the Boston Police Department announced it had arrested a bank robbery suspect who was hiding in a port-a-potty. According to reports, Spolidoro demanded money from the tellers, then left the bank with $1,000 in stolen cash. A dye pack attached to the money exploded as he fled the scene, CBS Boston noted.

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Long Lasting Ideas

APRIL 11, 2016

Fine put up his dukes so to speak after an article in The Boston Globe published a story contending that small community banks faced the greatest risk from hackers. Continue reading ICBA President takes on The Boston Globe on cybersecurity at Bank Marketing Strategy + Ideas.

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AUGUST 14, 2020

In a speech delivered by webcast at the Federal Reserve Board and Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco’s Innovation Office Hours, Fed Governor Lael Brainard said that the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is working with researchers at MIT to “build and test a hypothetical digital currency oriented to central bank uses.”.

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JULY 22, 2020

Some of the newest groups of people impacted by cost cutting are teachers, CNBC reported. Boston University , Northwestern , Trinity College , Georgetown and Duke have unveiled decreases in wages or to retirement contributions for the time being in an effort to mitigate the reduction of funds coming into the schools because of the pandemic.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2020

The Boston-based online sports gambling company announced Friday (June 19) it will sell 16 million shares of its stock. million in the first quarter, Boston Business Journal reported. In addition, the company said some DraftKings stockholders will sell 24 million shares at $40 per share, bringing the total offering to $1.6

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APRIL 28, 2020

And in those cases, Jonathan Parker, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told the Boston Globe , the attempt was pretty successful. Among those surveyed, 32 percent report that they will perform more activities at home and fewer activities away from home than before, and 16.1

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2016

According to a release on Thursday (April 14), Harvard’s report found that financial regulation has led to a 50 percent decline in credit card originations per year to lower-score Americans. Nearly one in five small businesses with one to nine employees report using revolving balances on personal credit cards to finance expenses.”.

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AUGUST 12, 2020

Federal Reserve officials said they don’t think the economy is coming back in full until the pandemic is contained, Reuters reported. citizens will likely have to learn to “live with” the virus for now, according to the report. Instead, U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2020

Plus, the Boston Federal Reserve Chief said the U.S. Boston Fed Chief Rosengren Expects Jobless Rate To ‘Rise Dramatically’. Boston Federal Reserve President Eric Rosengren said Wednesday (April 1) that despite the best efforts of politicians and central bankers to contain COVID-19’s economic impacts, the U.S.

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Payments Source

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

merchants now, up from 16% a year ago, according to a new report from Boston Retail Partners (BRP). Consumers can use Apple Pay at 36% of U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

And as PYMNTS has previously reported , the Boston Federal Reserve has been working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to explore tech infrastructure. Participants reported boosting their average cash held on their persons by 17 percent to $81 from a previous $69.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

Our first job out of college was owning a business in Boston,” Pilot Co-Founder and CEO Waseem Daher said in the release. PYMNTS reported that Pilot’s services could especially help millennial business owners, as those types of businesses are the ones often in need.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said he isn’t in a rush to adopt a central bank digital currency (CBDC) because of the risks such currencies pose to the status of the dollar, CoinDesk reported. “We We don’t feel an urge or need to be first,” he said of CBDCs, according to the report. dollar is] the reserve currency.”.

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MAY 12, 2019

According to a report in The New York Times , Redfin started testing the program in Boston and is gearing up to expand it to other parts of the country. It was for listings in the Boston area. That means a person selling a home could save $10,000 on a $500,000 transaction, reported The New York Times.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2020

Like many small businesses, Bluebonnet Photography has been hurt by the pandemic as customers have canceled photo shoots, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported. Others, including PayPal , Stripe and Worldpay have implemented additional waiting times to access funds deposited in their accounts, WSJ reported.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2017

Meanwhile, Boston-based international payments and receivables solution Flywire recently announced a collaboration with PayPal to process payments from students and patients using the Flywire platform. With the new partnerships, dLocal, which already has a presence in the U.S.,

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